There is a nice summary of how the budget battle developed in Table 7. “Summary of Appropriations Action on FY2016” on page 28. The biggest part of the jump from request to Appropriation was $640M for a ninth Bertholf Class, but there were other increases in both the OPC and NSC programs.

The NSC program went from a request for $91.4M to a final figure of $743.4M. A delta of $653M

The OPC program from a request for $18.5M to $89.0M permitting the award of the OPC down select contract in FY2016.

The FRC program began and ended as $340.0M (six more boats, a total of 38 funded through FY2016).

The TOTAL for all three programs went from 4449.9M to $1,172.4M

It does look like we have some friends on both sides of the aisle in Congress.

There are some significant provisions in the bill, that should change the way the Coast Guard does business and reports to the Congress.